Sentences with phrase «common moral tradition»

One response is that we are referring to a common moral tradition rather than a common religious tradition, although that is not entirely satisfactory since morality and religion can not be so neatly separated.

Not exact matches

Except for the fact atheists share no common belief, moral tenets, history, culture, texts, goals, holidays, traditions, practices, places of gathering, or hierarchy...

It is therefore possible to say that, within the common tradition, the notions of authority, power, and liberty are linked by moral as well as logical and practical bonds.

Thus, within the common tradition, moral education is supposed not only to prepare people to rule but to prepare them as well to recognize in their fellows the virtues necessary for the exercise of authority.

But it actually might be true that both the unpartnered state and the disproportionate crime rate are rooted in a common source — the crisis in legitimacy of once - accepted religious and moral traditions.

17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

When neither religion, tradition nor literature is capable of serving as a common moral language, it may be that the one moral code all modern people can understand is self - interest.

We can certainly point to great figures in varied religious traditions who exhibit some common moral and spiritual qualities.

When presented to students through a lively pedagogy of received wisdom, such as may be found in common maxims and precepts, these moral traditions can provide a compelling historical dimension to character education.

Embracing equally the wealth of its heritage and a calling to address the needs of the contemporary world, Notre Dame Law School brings together centuries of Catholic intellectual and moral tradition, the historic methods and principles of the common law, and a thorough engagement with the reality of today's legislative, regulatory, and global legal environment.